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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Starman01 on June 17, 2004, 02:59:40 pm

Title: Heavy slowdown due to particle-effects
Post by: Starman01 on June 17, 2004, 02:59:40 pm

Hello,

has anyone else encountered a massive FPS-Drop, when
you have a ship spreading out particles after a hit ?

I encountered while testing a new mission. One single fighter
had some heavier hulldamage and spread out particles from two
points, and my FPS drops from 70 to 10 (!) if he was visible. That
wasn't so funny at all.

I'm not using the media-vp, just the standard data and FS-Open 3.6.

System-Specs :

P 2,0 GHz, 512 MB RAM, GF4 TI 4200, WIN98 SE,

Launcher 5.0, 1024x768x32, AA x2 and these flags :

D:\freespace2\fs2_open_3_6.exe -glow -jpgtga -ship_choice_3d -fps  -ambient_factor 100

Could it be a bug, or rather my system ?

Title: Heavy slowdown due to particle-effects
Post by: Viper1000 on June 17, 2004, 03:14:34 pm

I used to have your exact system and let me tell ya, it sucked.

Title: Heavy slowdown due to particle-effects
Post by: WMCoolmon on June 17, 2004, 04:46:03 pm

What if you disable AA?

Title: Heavy slowdown due to particle-effects
Post by: Flipside on June 17, 2004, 05:03:36 pm

AA May be the problem, I thought it might an older decal effect build, but looking at your command line it's not :(

Title: Heavy slowdown due to particle-effects
Post by: Bobboau on June 17, 2004, 09:37:05 pm

try this build (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,24047.0.html) see if it helps

Title: Heavy slowdown due to particle-effects
Post by: Starman01 on June 18, 2004, 01:46:05 pm

Not really better.

This build makes the game-performance overall reduced for
at least 25 % in FPS, (and it has some strange additional bugs too),
but the particel-problem is still there.

However, viewing the particel-sprewing ships now only drops
to 20 FPS instead of 10 in the new build, but still... :(

Title: Heavy slowdown due to particle-effects
Post by: Moonsword on June 18, 2004, 06:49:26 pm

I'm lucky to get 20 fps without anything really going on.

Count your blessings, it could be a lot worse.  Try dogfighting when it's randomly dropping down to 7 FPS.

Title: Heavy slowdown due to particle-effects
Post by: Starman01 on June 19, 2004, 04:51:29 am

Very strange. See my system specs above, it is not really a high
performance machine, but except the know bugs I have normally
50 FPS in a battle, and nearly 100 when only a few capships are
around.

Title: Heavy slowdown due to particle-effects
Post by: mrduckman on June 19, 2004, 06:18:26 am

Try the lastest build made by WMCoolmon.